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Sitting around with my friends watching our latest junk TV craving, “Beauty and the Geek,” I realized that maybe, just maybe, we weren’t the target audience for the Ashton Kutcher creation. Presumably, the average viewer watches to gape at the antics of the socially awkward geeks. But while we had our share of laughs, I soon heard more “awwing” than chuckling, and quite a few variations of “I love...
...were so infused with our day-to-day interactions with Harvard men that this geekiness was not out of the ordinary. Yet all was clarified when someone piped up, “Why don’t they do a version of the show where the women are the geeks?” Our enjoyment of the show sprung from the sight of a kindred spirit—a safe way to stay in touch with our inner geek...
Maybe your inner geek is hibernating until he’s allowed back out to shine, or maybe he has become a little dominant, popping up at inopportune moments. Either way he’s there. You can’t hide it—everyone at Harvard has a geeky side. For those in geeky denial, I’ll define the concept. The term “geek” is often thought of as simply synonymous with “nerd,” or “dork.” But my brand of geek...
...Coady, who lives in Edmonton, grew up in Cape Breton and writes with authority about life on the East Coast, as she did in her critically acclaimed novels Strange Heaven and Saints of Big Harbour. In Mean Boy, the geek hero's adventures with his mentor and experiments with alcohol, women and new forms of poetic expression (plus his unlikely friendship with a behemoth football player) all provide fodder for comedy. And somewhere in the haze of hangovers, the novel also manages to examine the nature of poetry, poets and the underappreciated fine art of growing...
BEAUTY AND THE GEEK 2 THE WB, THURSDAYS...